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20 September
Italian software architect working on Microsoft 365, Azure and GitHub tooling. Microsoft MVP and GitHub Star; writes, speaks and streams about developer productivity at emanuelebartolesi.com.
19 September
Web designer and writer; founded A List Apart and Happy Cog, co-founded the An Event Apart conference, and wrote Designing With Web Standards.
Mastodon Modern Font Stacks: System font stack CSS organized by typeface classification for every modern OS. The fastest fonts available. No downloading, no layout shifts, no flashes; just instant renders. modernfontstacks.com
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British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.
Programmer, writer and musician; author of the Learn Code the Hard Way books and of Mongrel, the Ruby web server.
17 September
Web standards author and speaker; wrote the CSS: The Definitive Guide series and co-founded the An Event Apart conference.
I made this floating-scrollbar #CSS demo as the result of a discussion we had in today’s Front-End Study Hall: https://codepen.io/editor/meyerweb/pen/01a0b0bd-0100-750d-8c24-745f6318896d I don’t know if it’s actually a good idea to do something like this (probably not), and it has a few styling limitations (no drop shadows or glows), but it was interesting to try to hit a design brief with clipping paths and the relatively new `shape()` value. CSS Related
16 September
Founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975 and led it until stepping back from control in 2022. Author of Principles, The Changing World Order and How Countries Go Broke; publishes economic analysis at economicprinciples.org.
As I’ve explained here before, at this stage in my life, my main goal is to pass along the principles and templates I've learned with the hope that they can help others as much as they've helped me. One thing that has been incredibly valuable to me is learning that just because something hasn’t happened before in my lifetime doesn’t mean it won’t happen. So I needed to look not only at what the markets have been doing lately but to also study big events—like debt crises, internal political conflicts, and international wars—throughout history. For example, it was by studying the Great Depressi… wmi.edu.sg
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14 September
Web designer and writer; founded A List Apart and Happy Cog, co-founded the An Event Apart conference, and wrote Designing With Web Standards.
Bit o’ nostalgia for the old folks: A List Apart in 2002. (Design, art direction, and early CSS layout by yours truly, with a technical assist on the CSS from Tantek Çelik and Todd Fahrner, who were always smarter than me.) CSS Related
Canadian full-stack web developer who makes JavaScript and CSS video courses and co-hosts the Syntax podcast.
Has webkit ever kept CSS features under wraps until after an Apple product announcement? I can't find a single trace of anything related to viewport-segments or the device posture API coming to safari - aside from the failing WPT Could we see these APIs in the new xcode sim, or am I dreaming? CSS Related
Web designer and writer; founded A List Apart and Happy Cog, co-founded the An Event Apart conference, and wrote Designing With Web Standards.
Bit o’ nostalgia for the old folks: A List Apart in 2002. (Design, art direction, and pioneering CSS layout by yours truly, with a technical assist on the CSS from @tantek and @toddfahrner who were always smarter than me.) CSS Related
British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.
13 September
Software engineer who worked on Chrome and Polymer at Google, and writes about the web, emoji and Elm at meowni.ca.
11 September
Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.
Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast; blogs at daverupert.com.
Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.
10 September
Full-stack developer, creator of Tailwind CSS; writes at adamwathan.me and makes courses and screencasts for web developers.
Fun piece of history — Tailwind was extracted from a hosted checkout product I was working on back in 2017. Sort of poetic to end up at Shopify almost 10 years later! CSS Related
9 September
Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
Did a little CSS speedrun experiment (thanks @lea.verou.me for putting it on my feed)! codepen.io
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Web standards author and speaker; wrote the CSS: The Definitive Guide series and co-founded the An Event Apart conference.
#CSS Working Group currently discussing ways to deal with “the Hampster Dance problem”. CSS Related
Full-stack developer, creator of Tailwind CSS; writes at adamwathan.me and makes courses and screencasts for web developers.
Big one today — Tailwind is joining Shopify 🛍️ CSS Related
7 September
Thai software engineer; publishes a public digital garden at garden.narze.live and builds developer and productivity tooling.
5 September
Scottish software developer on the Statamic core team; runs a one-person business maintaining Statamic addons such as Runway and writes at duncanmcclean.com.
3 September
British front-end web developer based in Japan; writes about HTML, CSS, web performance and browser tooling at christianoliff.com.
29 August
Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.
Common problem… Helps to have templates and skills you can share that either clean it up for you, or politely calls out gaps in what they were going to do. Quoting @lennysan A growing part of everyone’s job is cleaning up the AI slop from other people trying to do your job Related
Philosophy professor at UC Berkeley and creator of pandoc, the universal document converter, and of the CommonMark markdown specification.
19 August
Full-stack developer, creator of Tailwind CSS; writes at adamwathan.me and makes courses and screencasts for web developers.
Last site on earth I expected to be a Tailwind site 😄 CSS Related
16 August
Italian software architect working on Microsoft 365, Azure and GitHub tooling. Microsoft MVP and GitHub Star; writes, speaks and streams about developer productivity at emanuelebartolesi.com.
13 August
Co-founder of Superlogical, started in 2026 to build server-side terminal infrastructure; creator of Ghostty. Co-founded HashiCorp and created Vagrant and Terraform before that.
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I'm so incredibly tired of seeing low-effort AI-designed web pages. I basically bounce off any new product immediately when I see it (never get a chance to judge the product itself). Lots of thin lines, glowy styles, inconsistent fonts, lots of monospace.
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5 August
Full-stack developer, creator of Tailwind CSS; writes at adamwathan.me and makes courses and screencasts for web developers.
Wait until you see what you can do when using the same CSS file to style different HTML files 🧠 Quoting @jmddotfm @sheherenow_ You're telling me its the same markup structure, with totally different designs???? CSS Related
19 July
Chief Product and Technology Officer at Netflix, previously VP of Science at Lyft and an economist at Analysis Group.
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I get really nervous about having different design languages or different types of user interactions and shipping Frankensteins, basically. So, designers need to then be the people we're hiring again for design systems thinking.
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12 July
Sociologist at Duke University writing on markets, exchange and moral order, and on plain-text and data-visualisation tools for social science.
10 July
Indonesian software engineer, educator and engineering manager at Zero One Group; open-source enthusiast writing at ripandis.com.
15 June
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
26 May
Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.
it's cool to read other people's takes on how to organize their CSS Quoting @desertthunder.dev I also tried to distill my learnings as a reusable reference for myself here: garden.desertthunder.dev/ux/css/ Shout out to @b0rk.jvns.ca for being a good teacher CSS Related
19 May
Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.
this looks super cool, i like how in open-props-ui.netlify.app/html/compone... you can literally copy and paste all the html/css for that component (minus the base theme stuff) and it seems like a reasonable size Quoting @chriscoyier.net "Like if shadcn and Open Props had a baby." open-props-ui.netlify.app/html/ CSS Related
15 May
Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.
Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.
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I ended up making this site with Tailwind CSS, and it helped me make a site I felt pretty happy with my minimal CSS skills and just 2 evenings of work!
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I’m a lot better at CSS than I was when I started using Tailwind
Ultimately Tailwind is limiting: if you want to do Weird Stuff in your CSS, it’s not always possible with Tailwind. Those limits can be extremely useful (a lot of this post is about me reimplementing some of Tailwind’s limits!) but at this point I’d like to be able to pick and choose.
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Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.
4 May
Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.
20 February
Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.
yay for automatic prefix caching! just set a single cache control field at the top level of your request body. note that you do still need to structure your prompt templates to benefit from prefix caching though. Related
16 February
Software engineer in Chicago; writes the cassidoo.co blog and a weekly developer newsletter.
13 February
Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic; previously VP of research at OpenAI.
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Like models are good at different types of coding. Models have different styles. Like I think I think these things are actually, you know, quite different from each other. And so expect more differentiation than you see in in um cloud.
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12 February
Moroccan senior frontend developer writing at smakosh.com; builds side projects and client work under Smakosh LLC.
6 January
Indian software engineer and co-founder of Skcript; builds web apps and writes at varunraj.in.
9 December 2025
Researcher and science writer. Co-founder and editor at Works in Progress magazine, formerly a researcher at Our World in Data, and author of the Scientific Discovery newsletter on science, global health and medical innovation.
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I instead use Datawrapper to create interactive charts very quickly. They follow great data visualization principles, have influenced my work, and their styles look great.
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12 June 2025
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
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Tailwind and vite are great, no complaints there.
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21 May 2025
Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.
Some thoughts on leadership: eugeneyan.com/writing/lead... • What makes an exceptional leader? • What do exceptional leaders do? • Leadership styles: Commando, soldier, police Related
18 May 2025
Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.
18 March 2025
Full-stack Laravel developer based in Madison, Wisconsin; maintains open-source Laravel, Livewire and Alpine.js packages and writes at randallwilk.dev.
23 December 2024
Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.
1 June 2024
Moroccan senior frontend developer writing at smakosh.com; builds side projects and client work under Smakosh LLC.
Their words
Side note for CSS, I'm cool to use what ever tech available out there that makes my task done quickly & well, I have personally used Bootstrap 3 & 4, Bulma, Lostgrid, Materliaze, Skeleton, Tailwindcss, Styled-components, emotion, CSS modules, Tachyons & made my own micro CSS framework called Unnamed that has over 200 stars on GitHub. Still I prefer using Tailwindcss.
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18 March 2024
Web standards author and speaker; wrote the CSS: The Definitive Guide series and co-founded the An Event Apart conference.
4 November 2023
Front-end developer and writer; co-founder of CodePen, founder of CSS-Tricks, and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast.
20 December 2022
American front-end engineer and design-systems specialist; built the Pantsuit design system for Hillary for America and has worked at Slack and IBM.
21 September 2021
Front-end developer and writer; co-founder of CodePen, founder of CSS-Tricks, and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast.
20 June 2019
Egyptian front-end developer and course creator; writes for CSS-Tricks, publishes courses on Udemy and blogs at alialaa.dev.
Check out my new article for @css. "Managing WordPress Metadata in Gutenberg Using a Sidebar Plugin" CSS Related
24 November 2017
Egyptian front-end developer and course creator; writes for CSS-Tricks, publishes courses on Udemy and blogs at alialaa.dev.
Check out my new website https://t.co/eTV1EdgqLI #CSS #CSSGrid #SVG CSS Related
17 April 2017
Egyptian front-end developer and course creator; writes for CSS-Tricks, publishes courses on Udemy and blogs at alialaa.dev.
CSS Grid Cheat Sheet https://t.co/3IBHvNMhn4 #css CSS Related
5 December 2016
Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.
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But to read Archie Brown’s fascinating book, The Myth of the Strong Leader, is to see an illustration that leaders like Suárez, who served as prime minister of Spain from 1976 to 1981, possess leadership styles and capacities that are incredibly effective, and depressingly rare.
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4 November 2014
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
7 October 2014
Norwegian web pioneer who proposed Cascading Style Sheets in 1994 while at CERN, and was CTO of Opera Software. Also runs a small organic farm.
Liked their own rcmnd.app
Prince
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Then comes Prince, which converts HTML and CSS to beautiful PDF files. (Disclosure: I'm the chairman of the board of YesLogic, the company behind Prince.)
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17 September 2013
Journalist, editor and typesetter covering technology and printing history; wrote for TidBITS and the Economist and published The Magazine.
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I admit a bit guiltily that for previewing and designing CSS, I turn to MacRabbit's CSSEdit 2.5, a version that's no longer shipping, as its functionality was absorbed into the company's Espresso Web site development software.
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7 February 2012
Web developer and musician; co-creator of the Django web framework, founder of EveryBlock and of the music-notation site Soundslice.
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